I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Only bad writers think they're good.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

Desire is the impulse that sparks the flame.

Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.

Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.

There's nothing wrong with changing your mind if you think something's right at a certain moment.

We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.

Running has been great for keeping me fit throughout my acting career.

WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.

I watch ESPN all day. If you come into my trailer, ESPN is on. That's the first thing I do when I leave the set.

O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!

I'm kind of under the radar. Not a lot of people notice me. Which is surprising, because I'm so sexy. They're probably intimidated by my sexiness and crushability.